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Homemade pasta is a treat for the palate. If you have never had the opportunity to taste more homemade pasta so this recipe will literally blow you!

Many people do not even consider fighting homemade pasta, because they give a false impression that it is difficult to reach. Nothing could be further from the truth, yes, it's easy, but it takes some time - in no way be considered as fast food. So, without wasting your time, we go step by step how to make this special home-made pasta. I call it "Mediterranean pasta" because it is packed with Mediterranean flavors such as fresh basil, oregano and thyme. There is no doubt that this dish is from my Italian blood and distant memories of my mother's hand, she made pasta so many years ago. Bless them!

Ingredients:

A half cup of fresh basil
Quarter cup fresh thyme
Quarter cup fresh oregano
£ 1 meal
2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
Approximately one quarter cup of fresh water
Pinch of salt
2 eggs (optional)

* Above all, green homemade pasta Mediterranean attendees will need to remove the leaves from your taste (basil, oregano, thyme) to. Try fresh, like it really an explosive difference. Discard the leaves are turning brown.

* Place the leaves with olive oil and water in a blender and mix until you have a liquid sauce. Make sure the leaves were mixed completely with fluid and no large pieces remain, although this is not always negative.

* Sift the flour on the bench. It is much easier to work on a large canvas, as in a bowl. They are here with your hands please, no mixers.

* Make a well, pour into the sifted flour and green sauce with your mixer and the voluntary egg. The eggs make the dough smoother and easier to manage and provide protein. When not in use, however, cut eggs in your diet, remove it from the recipe.

* Mix the eggs and sauce together with a fork, then begins to interfere with the inner part of the flour. When you have a less viscous mixture discard the fork and use your hands, mix flour with sauce and have to work well into a dough.

* Cut the dough for about 10 minutes.

* Cover can cover the dough with a clean cloth and rest for about 30 minutes.

After the dough has been at home, a rest period of 30 minutes, it is not finished. For this you need a pasta machine or a simple rolling pin.

Cut the ball of dough in 4-6 equal-sized pieces and keep an aside - you meet the other again with the cloth. Sift a little flour on the counter and hands flat piece of dough into a rectangle about 4 inches x 10 inches. Choose the largest opening in the pasta machine, place one of the short sides of the machine and turn the handle until the entire rectangle crossed the machine. Repeat this procedure two more times and then choose the next smaller opening on the machine and gives the dough a two to three times. On my machine, I do it four times, until my pasta a little more than a millimeter thick. If you use a rolling pin, make sure there is enough flour on the dough, so as not to burn the rolling pin. Roll out a rectangle and fold it twice and roll again. Lead to repeat this process three times and keep rolling, until the pasta is completely flat and thick, about 1-1 1 / 2 millimeters.

With a disc cutter or a knife dough into strips about half a centimeter wide and 4-6 cm, or longer if you prefer. Repeat the above with another piece of pasta to rest in the towel. If you are unable to noodles hanging on somewhere under the sun. Otherwise, you can on a surface of the wood dries it is not a piece of homemade pasta to the other. Within an hour should be enough, especially when dusted with flour during the acute phase. In the sun, 30 minutes would be enough.

Do your green Mediterranean homemade noodles

Bring a large saucepan with water to a boil and) with salt (preferably large grains of sea salt. Add the pasta, stir the boiling water and boil for no more than 5 minutes. At the end of cooking time add directly to another pan with the sauce of your choice. Noodles should be enough for four servings.

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